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Dry times blueprint for a red land
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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Deserts can teach us new ways to live, manage scarce resources, cope with a harsh climate, isolation and a lack of water and energy.
Details
- Creator
- Mark Stafford Smith and Julian Cribb
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., c2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0643101810, 1283155478, 9786613155474, 0643098038, 0643095276
- OCLC
- ocn645097438
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index.
- English
- Dramatic deserts -- Spreading deserts: past and future -- What drives deserts? -- Desert survivors -- Living off a lean landscape -- Dry but smart: tomorrow's desert business -- Surprising settlements -- Tantalising technologies -- Desert democrats -- Deserts and our future